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We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of … individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax …
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We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...
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This paper reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for, politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential usefulness of apparently inefficient policy instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints...
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We study fair and efficient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by nature) and effort (chosen by individuals who differ in tastes). Factors differ in...
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This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by...
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In this paper, we discuss a novel aspect of affirmative action policy. We examine its redistributive role, asking whether in an egalitarian society, supplementing the tax-transfer system with an affirmative action policy would enhance social welfare
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A method for handling monotonicity constraints in optimal control problems is applied in order to correct a technical weakness of optimal nonlinear taxation models with many commodities, caused by the neglect of a second order constraint for utility maximization. We conclude that all the optimal...
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The standard model on optimal income taxation in the presence of tax evasion is extended to allow for mobility between the legal and hidden sectors. The conclusions from the traditional analysis of tax evasion strongly contrast with those that result when extensive margin responses are taken...
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We extend Simula and Trannoy's (2012) model on optimal income taxation under the threat of migration to include indirect taxation. This has allowed finding that: 1) the tax schedule is also influenced by the magnitude of commodity taxes and subsidies; 2) optimal income tax rates are higher than...
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This chapter examines government policy alternatives for protecting the environment. We compare environmentally motivated taxes and various non-tax environmental policy instruments in terms of their efficiency and distributional impacts. Much of the analysis is performed in a second-best setting...
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